One of the most forthright descriptions of Mr Odinga is given by one of his main allies, Lands minister James Orengo.

US ambassador Michael Ranneberger met both Mr Orengo and head of Public Service Francis Muthaura in mid 2009 to press them to push Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga to speed up the process of reforms. In his meeting with Mr Ranneberger, the Lands minister shared his frustration with the PM.

“After I reviewed the state of play along lines similar to those I employed with Muthaura, Orengo admitted frustration about the slow movement on the reform agenda. He said that Prime Minister Odinga must bear substantial responsibility for this.
Orengo made clear his view that Kibaki and his people do not favour far-reaching reforms, but at the same time, he said, Odinga has not been forthright in driving implementation of the reform agenda.
Odinga has done nothing to reorganise his office to make it more effective; Odinga is a poor manager who does not follow up; and he is primarily focused on preparing for his presidential run in 2012, Orengo said. Odinga has avoided bold moves because he is hostage to his difficult political constituency, Orengo said. In essence, Orengo concluded, Odinga wants to maintain support from the diverse elements of his Orange Democratic Movement coalition, and that means he has pulled his punches on issues like the Special Tribunal.”

wah! kweli kikulacho ki nguoni mwako if the leaks can b trusted....in fact always trust urself only!!

There is more

Critical assessment

Mr Ranneberger followed up those comments with a critical assessment of the PM’s office, saying his secretariat was inefficient in comparison to that of Mr Kibaki, which served to weaken Mr Odinga.

“Odinga has weakened his own authority and effectiveness by surrounding himself with an incompetent and divided core team in the Prime Minister’s office. This has contributed greatly to his inability to work effectively to build his own authority within the coalition government.
For whatever reason, and despite urging from us and many others to do so, he has refused to shake up his team and remains ill-served by them. As a result, the positions he takes publicly and privately are inconsistent, erratic and often amateurish.

http://www.nation.co.ke/.../0/-/ag5dmk/-/index.html

@ insurgent so sad uv pitiad the knife yet it doesnt show...

Orengo has been the sober mind in SDP then ODM. He has even married from the other side. His thoughts as contained in the Wiki on his party leader are not surprising.

what with the Kihii every turn cann't @insurgent contribute soberly?????

What makes you think that Orengo having one of his several wives from the other side 'the mountain' makes him sober minded! and this is from a college educated Zombie. Such myopic reasoning and self imagination of pple from some place being superior to the rest are what makes us a bunch of idiots.But anyway u r entitled to your comments.

All I read here is a rant not even worth a Zain text expense.

I find it telling that Orengo has not denied (like everyone else) saying those things....

Or has he? I rarely watch news these days..

Orengo was a reformist zamani. He was my favorite in 2002. Then he made the error of insulting an entire tribe while on campaigning. I lost my faith in him.

In 07, the 'reformist' was rigged in during ODM primaries.

Of late, he has been happy to fall into our tribe centred siasa.